Answer first: comparing suppliers is only meaningful if the comparison holds the laboratory, the method and the compound constant, and most published comparisons hold none of them.
Cost per milligram of actual peptide is the honest price comparison, which means dividing by measured content rather than by label claim.
Compare documentation on a fixed checklist rather than by impression: lot specificity, method section, chromatogram availability, quantified content, water and counter-ion figures, and whether the code is on the vial.
Content assay results across the published datasets vary considerably more between suppliers than purity does, which makes content the more discriminating axis.
Compare content, not purity. Purity clusters and content does not.
edited 13 Feb 2026 by lukas_sedlacek — added the citation requested in comments